For many years Topps Heritage Baseball has been one of the most highly anticipated sets to release each year. There are many casual baseball card collectors who only purchase this set because they enjoy the throwback feel to the cards and the design based off Topps’ most historical card sets of the past. The 2012 Heritage set will take it’s cues from the 1963 Topps card design.

The Heritage base set is always huge and features current players and rookies as well as League Leaders, Rookie Star Quads, Manager Cards, and Team Cards. Cards #426-500 in the base set are Short Printed to 1:3 packs. Collectors will pay fairly good money, $2-$10, for key Heritage short print cards on CheckoutmyCards and on eBay. If you enjoy busting boxes and re-selling some or all of the cards you pull – this is a good product to try your luck because many of the non-autograph/relic cards still have value and can be sold for good money. Be sure to pre-order your box very early on if this is your plan, as the price for Topps Heritage Baseball boxes typically go up as much as $10-30 per box depending on the demand for the cards at the time. Retail establishments like Target & WalMart will have Blaster Boxes for $19.99, loose packs for $2.99 each, and retail value packs that are $4.99.

Each and every autograph in 2012 Topps Heritage Baseball will be signed on-card. The Red Ink Real One Autographs are always a hit on the secondary market because they are serial numbered #/63 but it is very tough to hit one of those out of just one pack or box. Overall odds per hobby box is 1 autograph or 1 memorabilia relic card. Some of the relics are “stadium” memorabilia cards that might be of a seat or something of that nature from an old ball park. It will be interesting to see what collectors will be willing to pay for those.

Overall if you like getting “big hits” out of your boxes then this is probably not the set for you. This is a classic throwback set that appeals to set builders and people who really enjoy looking and studying their collection of cards. The set is typically priced fairly cheap if you get in early – Hobby and Retail boxes of this tends to dry up and the price will elevate over time.